No. 764
The Degree of Judicial Enforcement and Credit Markets: Evidence from Japanese Household Panel Data
Charles Yuji Horioka and Shizuka Sekita
December 2009
No. 763
The (Dis)saving Behavior of the Aged in Japan
Charles Yuji Horioka
December 2009
No. 762
Optimal Emission Tax with Endogenous Location Choice of Duopolistic Firms
Masako Ikefuji, Jun-ichi Itaya and Makoto Okamura
December 2009
No. 761
Regional Restriction, Strategic Delegation, and Welfare
Toshihiro Matsumura and Noriaki Matsushima
November 2009
No. 760
Nominal Wage Adjustment, Demand Shortage and Economic Policy
Yoshiyasu Ono and Junichiro Ishida
November 2009
No. 759
Measurement of Social Preference from Utility-Based Choice Experiments
Katsunori Yamada, Masayuki Sato and Yasuhiro Nakamoto
November 2009
No. 758
Income Distribution and Macroeconomics Revisited: The Role of Fertility Adjustment
Masao Nakagawa and Yoshiaki Sugimoto
November 2009
No. 757
Domestic Competition and Foreign Direct Investment in Unionized Oligopoly
Junichiro Ishida and Noriaki Matsushima
October 2009
No. 756
On the Theory of Exhaustible Resources: Ricardo vs. Hotelling
Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori
September 2009
No. 755
Vertical Separation as a Defense against Strong Suppliers
Noriaki Matsushima and Tomomichi Mizuno
September 2009
No. 754
Horizontal Mergers, Firm Heterogeneity, and R&D Investments
Noriaki Matsushima, Yasuhiro Sato and Kazuhiro Yamamoto
September 2009
No. 753
Socially Optimal Liability Rules for Firms with Natural Monopoly
Atsushi Tsuneki
August 2009
No. 752
Relative Performance and R&D Competition
Toshihiro Matsumura, Noriaki Matsushima and Susumu Cato
August 2009
No.751
Why Hierarchy? Communication and Information Acquisition in Organizations
Junichiro Ishida
August 2009
No. 750
Internal vs. External Habit Formation in a Growing Economy with Overlapping Generations
Masako Ikefuji and Kazuo Mino
August 2009
No. 749
Do Consumers Select Food Products Based on Carbon Dioxide Emissions? Evidence from a Buying Experiment in Japan
Keiko Aoki
July 2009, Revised January 2011
No. 748
Zero Nominal Interest Rates, Unemployment, Excess Reserves and Deflation in a Liquidity Trap
Ryu-ichiro Murota and Yoshiyasu Ono
July 2009
No. 747
Auctions with Endogenous Price Ceiling: Theoretical and Experimental Results
Robert F. Veszteg, Kenju Akai, Tatsuyoshi Saijo and Shigehiro Serizawa
July 2009
No. 746
Cheap Talk with an Informed Receiver
Junichiro Ishida and Takashi Shimizu
June 2009. Revised June 2015
No. 745
Input Specificity and Product Differentiation
Noriaki Matsushima and Tomomichi Mizuno
June 2009
No. 744
Returns System with Rebates
Tatsuhiko Nariu, David Flath and Atsuo Utaka
June 2009
No. 743
An Experimental Study of Procurement Auctions with Endogenous Minimum Prices
Kenju Akai, Tatsuyoshi Saijo and Shigehiro Serizawa
(Originally entitled "An Experimental Study of Japanese Procurement Auctions with Endogenous Minimum Prices")
June 2009, Revised July 2010
No. 742
A Small Firm Leads to Curious Outcomes: Social Surplus, Consumer Surplus
Toshihiro Matsumura and Noriaki Matsushima
June 2009
No. 741
Foreign Direct Investment and the Welfare Effects of Cost Harmonization
Anthony Creane and Kaz Miyagiwa
May 2009
No. 740
Auctions for Public Construction with Corner-cutting
Kenju Akai and Shigehiro Serizawa (Originally co-authored Tatsuyoshi Saijo)
May 2009, Revised August 2010
No. 739
Industrial Concentration, Price-Cost Margins, and Innovation
David Flath
May 2009
No. 738
Why Do We Tip Taxicab Drivers?
David Flath
May 2009
No. 737
Trust and Reciprocity among International Groups: Experimental Evidence from Austria and Japan
Kenju Akai and Robert J. Netzer
May 2009, Revised August 2010
No. 736
A Coordination Game Model of Charitable Giving and Seed Money Effect
Kentaro Hatsumi
April 2009, Revised September 2009, Secondly Revised May 2011
No. 735
Candidate Stable Voting Rules for Separable Orderings
Kentaro Hatsumi
April 2009
No. 734
Technological Progress, On-the-Job Search, and Unemployment
Hiroaki Miyamoto and Yuya Takahashi
March 2009 (The 11th ISER-Moriguchi Prize (2009) Awarded Paper)
No. 733
The Economic Costs of Court Decisions Concerning Dismissals in Japan: Identification by Judge Transfers
Hiroko Okudaira
March 2009 (The 11th ISER-Moriguchi Prize (2009) Awarded Paper), Revised September 2015
No. 732
Fat Debtors: Time Discounting, Its Anomalies, and Body Mass Index
Shinsuke Ikeda, Kang Myong-Il and Fumio Ohtake
March 2009
No. 731
Education, Inovation, and Long-Run Growth
Katsuhiko Hori and Katsunori Yamada
February 2009, Revised March 2009, Secondly Revised November 2011(Originally entitled "Complementary Relationships between Education and Innovation")
No. 730
The Keynesian Multiplier Effect Reconsidered
Yoshiyasu Ono
January 2009
No. 729
Do Bequests Increase or Decrease Wealth Inequalities?
Charles Yuji Horioka
January 2009